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Spatial
Nov 15, 2007

my dream came true, thanks to the power of bitcoin

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poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Toys For rear end Bum posted:

I guess this explains why Bitcoin has dropped $1000 in just over 4 weeks

This is why bitcoin has been crashing: AlphaBay and Hansa dark web markets shut down

TBH this is perfectly normal churn in the internet drugs scene, and since this is now the third major law enforcement incursion into the DNM scene there's now plenty of precedent to predict that the scene will crystallize quickly around one of the dozens of other markets which were unaffected by this and bitcoin will again be inexplicably breaking records within 6 months to a year

Anyway here's the GBS moneyshot. The alleged founder of Alphabay who killed himself in a Thai jail a few weeks ago was a big poster on the Roosh PUA forums under the username Rawmeo and this was his signature



Family of dead AlphaBay suspect says he was a “good boy”
Alexandre Cazes, 26, also apparently spent a lot of time in a "pickup artist" forum.


quote:

On Friday afternoon, The Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper, described how Cazes, under the name Rawmeo, frequently posted to Roosh V, a "pickup artist" discussion forum.

The site's founder acknowledged Rawmeo's passing in a post on Thursday.

In December 2014, in one of his early posts, Rawmeo started a still-ongoing thread entitled: "The most beta thing you did."

According to the paper, Rawmeo apparently submitted a several-thousand-long word post in 2016 about dating and "wife-hunting" in Thailand. He explained that unlike most foreigners who simply seek "promiscuous women in tourist areas," he had lived in the country since 2012. Moreover, he had attended a Thai language school, purchased property, and drove a Porsche Panamera because "Thai girls love supercars."

According to The Globe and Mail, Cazes "described his native Quebec as a place where too many are on welfare and where Muslim refugees get in easily and ‘start breeding like bedbugs,’ while he had trouble getting a visa for his Thai relatives."

"I left a broken society to live in a traditional one," he wrote in January 2017.

In another post, he wrote: "I am what we call a professional cheater. Despite having a live-in wife, I have a secondary residence that no one knows about—and that’s where I bring girls."

Rawmeo last logged on to the site on July 4, just one day before he was arrested. Roosh V records show that he posted 1,587 times, or an average of 1.55 posts per day.

poverty goat fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Jul 22, 2017

mike12345
Jul 14, 2008

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."





someone posted a link to his extensive study of women and courtship rituals in thailand

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-56038.html

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost
rip pimp_alex_91

COMRADES
Apr 3, 2017

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Solice Kirsk posted:

Gonna play devil's advocate and say that if we're basing Bitcoins performance as a long term investment (like most serious minded investors do) then even with these dips it's still well ahead. I wouldn't buy them even with someone else's money, mind you, but over a few years time they have increased in value....if not liquidity.

The problem is so many exchanges and whatnot have either been shut down or robbed or stole from their customers outright so unless you just have your own secure wallet (and kept the passwords for it for years) odds are good your BTC stash would have disappeared at some point between now and the last several years.

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
drug kingpin turns out to be horrible person !!

what are the odds huh

COMRADES
Apr 3, 2017

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

quote:

"I left a broken society to live in a traditional one," he wrote in January 2017.

lmao what a loving idiot.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



COMRADES posted:

The problem is so many exchanges and whatnot have either been shut down or robbed or stole from their customers outright so unless you just have your own secure wallet (and kept the passwords for it for years) odds are good your BTC stash would have disappeared at some point between now and the last several years.

this has only actually happened to a tiny minority of exchanges and online wallet things

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

poverty goat posted:

this has only actually happened to a tiny minority of exchanges and online wallet things

exchanges are only hacked incredibly rarely! about once a month

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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COMRADES posted:

The problem is so many exchanges and whatnot have either been shut down or robbed or stole from their customers outright so unless you just have your own secure wallet (and kept the passwords for it for years) odds are good your BTC stash would have disappeared at some point between now and the last several years.

Oh absolutely. BTC is about as expensive of a speculative play you can make with absolutely no security or regulation to back you up. I do see ways that a global currency that isn't tied to banks could be hugely beneficial to the global economy (use in large transactions between foreign companies, holding firms, etc), but until there's regulations backed by several world governments it's just gonna be floating out there in the wild west of new currencies.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



divabot posted:

exchanges are only hacked incredibly rarely! about once a month

there are lots of exchanges though so even if this were true it wouldn't amount to good odds that any given person using bitcoin would have bitcoins stolen

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Banks aren't above getting hacked either. Pretty sure something brought down Chase and Bank of America for an entire day this month.

Toys For Ass Bum
Feb 1, 2015




:eng99:

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

poverty goat posted:

there are lots of exchanges though so even if this were true it wouldn't amount to good odds that any given person using bitcoin would have bitcoins stolen

Which ones do you use?

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Burt Sexual posted:

Which ones do you use?

i do not

klafbang
Nov 18, 2009
Clapping Larry

divabot posted:

exchanges are only hacked incredibly rarely! about once a month

Uh, I think you will find that most exchanges only get hacked once in total.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

I'll weigh that with your opinion.

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

Solice Kirsk posted:

Banks aren't above getting hacked either. Pretty sure something brought down Chase and Bank of America for an entire day this month.

Good thing those exchanges are FDIC insured

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



divabot posted:

Good thing those exchanges are FDIC insured

exchanges aren't banks either though, they aren't there to store your bitcoins and letting them do so is 100% elective rather than some kind of foundational reality of bitcoin as you guys seem to think

people who hide cash in their mattress are just as hosed if their house gets robbed, but that's not an argument against cash, just a bad thing that happens to idiots

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

poverty goat posted:

exchanges aren't banks either though, they aren't there to store your bitcoins and letting them do so is 100% elective rather than some kind of foundational reality of bitcoin as you guys seem to think

people who hide cash in their mattress are just as hosed if their house gets robbed, but that's not an argument against cash, just a bad thing that happens to idiots

so basically, you shouldn't keep bitcoins on an exchange, and you shouldn't keep bitcoins at home

I'll support that

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

divabot posted:

so basically, you shouldn't keep bitcoins on an exchange, and you shouldn't keep bitcoins at home

I'll support that

Lol

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



divabot posted:

so basically, you shouldn't keep bitcoins on an exchange, and you shouldn't keep bitcoins at home

I'll support that

you shouldn't keep bitcoins any longer than it takes to spend them

it's currency, not an investment

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

poverty goat posted:

you shouldn't keep bitcoins any longer than it takes to spend them

it's currency, not an investment

why don't u have bitcoins?

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

poverty goat posted:

this has only actually happened to a tiny minority of exchanges and online wallet things

What percentage, do you think?

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Relevant Tangent posted:

What percentage, do you think?

Too high for a goat in poverty. Otherwise he'd be rich!!1

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

poverty goat posted:

you shouldn't keep bitcoins any longer than it takes to spend them

it's currency, not an investment

Currency that is good for many things such as

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

Currency that is good for many things such as

paying the feds to investigate you

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.

divabot posted:

Good thing those exchanges are FDIC insured

Which is the biggest hurdle that BTC has. Even an independent regulatory body like the SEC but for crypto currency could add a huge amount of legitimacy to the whole thing if it's done correctly.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



BENGHAZI 2 posted:

Currency that is good for many things such as

Drugs and porn

Stefan Prodan
Jan 7, 2002

I deeply respect you as a human being... Some day I'm gonna make you *Mrs* Buck Turgidson!


Grimey Drawer
don't forget hitmen that are actually FBI agents 100% of the time

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Stefan Prodan posted:

don't forget hitmen that are actually FBI agents 100% of the time

Consider investing in new jokes

Stefan Prodan
Jan 7, 2002

I deeply respect you as a human being... Some day I'm gonna make you *Mrs* Buck Turgidson!


Grimey Drawer

poverty goat posted:

Consider investing in new jokes

no way I am allin on bit coin

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

poverty goat posted:

Drugs and porn

I like how you left off a qualifier there

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

poverty goat posted:

Consider investing in new jokes

Weren't you just against investing in bitcoin

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
You guys keep telling me not to put my retirement find into lotto tickets, but look -- there's a winner like one a week!

Elfgames
Sep 11, 2011

Fun Shoe

poverty goat posted:

Drugs and porn

there is no porn that i want to see that i need to pay for

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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No one should ever pay for porn. We should demand porn subsidies. Smut Reform!

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Elfgames posted:

there is no porn that i want to see that i need to pay for

Specifically with Bitcoin

Because it's all child porn

Stefan Prodan
Jan 7, 2002

I deeply respect you as a human being... Some day I'm gonna make you *Mrs* Buck Turgidson!


Grimey Drawer
i'm sure there's some adult snuff porn too

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BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Stefan Prodan posted:

i'm sure there's some adult snuff porn too

Afaik there are still no confirmed snuff films in existence

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